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4:13

Kay Read

A day in the life of an Aztec midwife

Posted May 2020
4:43

Shunan Teng

How the Monkey King escaped the underworld

Posted Apr 2020
4:34

Soraya Field Fiorio

Who was the world's first author?

Posted Mar 2020
5:13

Matteo Salvadore

The imaginary king who changed the real world

Posted Mar 2020
5:02

Iseult Gillespie

The tale of the doctor who defied Death

Posted Mar 2020
4:15

Jesse Byock

The secret messages of Viking runestones

Posted Feb 2020
4:40

Antara Raychaudhuri and Iseult Gillespie

The legend of Annapurna, Hindu goddess of nourishment

Posted Feb 2020
8:56

Mackenzie Dalrymple

Three stories of Scotland

Posted Jan 2020
4:52

Eden Girma

The mysterious life and death of Rasputin

Posted Jan 2020
4:56

Rod Phillips

A brief history of alcohol

Posted Jan 2020
5:09

William D. Desmond

The philosophy of cynicism

Posted Dec 2019
4:49

Alex Gendler

Why doesn't the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over?

Posted Dec 2019
4:32

Theresa A. Yugar

History's "worst" nun

Posted Nov 2019
6:46

Daniel Bögre Udell

How to save a language from extinction

Posted Nov 2019
4:25

Alex Gendler

The myth of Loki and the master builder

Posted Nov 2019
3:24

Bill Keegan

The Taino myth of the cursed creator

Posted Nov 2019
4:34

Chip Berlet

Are the Illuminati real?

Posted Oct 2019
3:43

Adrienne Mayor

The Greek myth of Talos, the first robot

Posted Oct 2019
4:16

TED-Ed

The Maya myth of the morning star

Posted Oct 2019
4:48

Marlene Daut

The first and last king of Haiti

Posted Oct 2019
14:33

David Peterson

Why language is humanity's greatest invention

Posted Oct 2019
4:19

Laura Wright

Why should you read "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy?

Posted Sep 2019
4:50

Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara

The myth of the Sampo— an infinite source of fortune and greed

Posted Sep 2019
4:09

Philip Freeman

A day in the life of an ancient Celtic Druid

Posted Sep 2019
5:20

Alex Gendler

A brief history of chess

Posted Sep 2019
5:09

Iseult Gillespie

The secret student resistance to Hitler

Posted Sep 2019
4:48

Anne F. Broadbridge

The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire

Posted Aug 2019
17:53

Kishore Mahbubani

How the West can adapt to a rising Asia

Posted Aug 2019
4:29

Alex Gendler

A day in the life of a Cossack warrior

Posted Aug 2019
13:10

Bina Venkataraman

The power to think ahead in a reckless age

Posted Aug 2019
4:12

Shrabani Basu

From pacifist to spy: WWII's surprising secret agent

Posted Aug 2019
4:30

Bill Schutt

A brief history of cannibalism

Posted Jul 2019
4:54

Iseult Gillespie

Why should you read "Hamlet"?

Posted Jun 2019
4:04

Janelle Peters

How Romans flooded the Colosseum for sea battles

Posted Jun 2019
5:05

Brian A. Pavlac

Ugly History: Witch Hunts

Posted Jun 2019
4:17

Alex Gendler

Why should you read "The Master and Margarita"?

Posted May 2019